Wed Jan 31 10:20:53 2001
Name:Karthik Kumar
Email:kumar_karthik123@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Finance Minister: In the wake of the earth quake, the PM has warned of additional taxes to pay for the damage. All Indians would willingly share the burden, and even as I write are contributing their mite. However, when it comes to taxation I hope you realise that less than 2% of the country's people pay taxes. So when you draft your tax proposals, you may want to consider widening the tax net rather than burdening those already paying taxes, through their nose, if I may add. While we are on the subject of tax increases, may I also suggest that government profligacy be also cut down to pay for the damage in Gujarat. For starters let us cut out all the foreign junkets assorted politicians and bureaucrats make at the tax payers expenses. After all every drop counts in the mighty ocean of rebuiding Gujarat. Best wishes, Karthik Kumar

Wed Jan 31 11:05:01 2001
Name:sriram
Email:sriramshastry@yahoo.com
Suggestions:u r a cheat

Wed Jan 31 11:05:07 2001
Name:sriram
Email:sriramshastry@yahoo.com
Suggestions:u r a cheat

Wed Jan 31 11:51:37 2001
Name:kunal sarkar
Email:kunalsarkar123@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:remove surcharge from individual income tax

Wed Jan 31 12:12:15 2001
Name:pswpgtramesh
Email:pswpgtrammesh@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:dear sir, we are poor farmers.weare affected by wto agreement.sir on behalf of farmers community i request you to shower some benifits to our community. thanking you yours faithfully one of the farmers.

Wed Jan 31 13:10:39 2001
Name:kalasahay
Email:kalasahay@yahoo.com
Suggestions: Last buddget was a very harsh buddget, which was not atall good for middle class people 'Pls keep this in mind this buddget should be Friedly atlist to middle class people

Wed Jan 31 13:15:54 2001
Name:Vikram seth
Email:vs@vsnl.com
Suggestions:Can you do something to prevent regular tinkering of the Income Tax Act by every new CBDT committee.

Wed Jan 31 13:41:54 2001
Name:Prashant Jadhav`
Email:richprashant@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please raise the income-tax limit from present level to atleast Rs.90,000/-p.a.

Wed Jan 31 13:49:34 2001
Name:scfrdrth
Email:axsd@123india.com
Suggestions:please fixed the rate of crops.

Wed Jan 31 14:46:16 2001
Name:Sharad Kumar
Email:sharad_ku@hotmail.com
Suggestions:I am in Govt. service and I feel that tax liability on salary should be much less than at present. Otherwise our incomes are only notional as 33% of it goes away. Hope this would be taken care of especially for the Govt. employees.

Wed Jan 31 15:00:46 2001
Name:RAJU
Email:gianani@hotmail.com
Suggestions:HONOURABLE MINISTER, DEVELOPMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN BACKWARD AND RURAL AREAS : TO ALLOW PVT INDIVIDUALS/COMPANIES ETC TO DEVELOP NEW CITIES/TOWNS AND IN RETURN PROVIDING THEM INCENTIVES FREE ADVERTISMENT RIGHTS, GOVT. CONTRACTS, TAX INCENTIVES ETC IN THE AREAS DEVELOPED BY THEM. THIS WILL REDUCE THE BURDEN ON THE GOVT FOR DEVELOPING THESE AREAS WHICH CAN BE DONE BY PVT PROFESSIONAL INDIVIDUALS/COMPANIES/ORGANISATIONS ETC. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING OVERALL BALANCED DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRIES AND THEREBY REDUCING THE CONGESTION, SATURATION OF OTHER DEVELOPED CITIES.AT THE SAME TIME ONCE THE DEVELOPMENT WORK STARTS IT WILL GENERATE HUGE EMPLOYMENT, CREATE NEW AND MORE BUSINESS OPPURTUNITIES WHICH IN TURN WILL BRING IN DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS/EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ETC THEREBY EDUCATING OUR MASSES. WITH BEST REGARDS RAJU GIANANI

Wed Jan 31 15:29:42 2001
Name:D J Chakravarty
Email:chakravartydj@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, This is high time Govt. of India should adopt some uniform reasonable policy for Income Tax for salaried people. my suggestion is that the Tax rate for salaried persons should be in the brackets of 10 15 and maximum of 20 percent and may be applicable to all persons earning morethan RS 60000/- PER ANUM. this may help to bring more people in tax bracket without loosing revenue. Regards, D J Chakravarty

Wed Jan 31 15:58:25 2001
Name:RAJIV GAURI
Email:rajivgauri2000@rediff.com
Suggestions:DEAR SIR, IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE WAKE UP TO THE REALISATION THAT NEXT TWENTY YEARS ARE GOING TO BE THE YEARS OF KNOWLEDGE BASED BE IT SOFTWARE,BIOTECH OR COMBINATION OF BOTH BIOINFORMATICS. WE HAVE LARGEST POOL OF ENGLISH SPEAKING PROFESSIONALS.NOW IS THE TIME TO UTILIZE OUR STRENGTH AND PLOUGH BACK SO MUCH SPENT ON SUBSIDISED EDUCTION. YOUR GOODSELF CAN DO YOUR BIT BY DOING FOLLOWING; 1.GIVE INCENTIVE TO SOFTWARE EXPORTERS WHO ARE MAKING NEW PRODUCTS RATHER THAN DOING CONTRACTUAL JOBS AND ON SITE DEVELOPMENT AS VALUE ADDITION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME.SIR SILICON VALLEY IS 60 % COMPRISED OF INDIAN AND TO DATE WE DONT HAVE A INDIAN COMPANY WHO CAN SEE EYE TO EYE TO GIANTS LIKE MICROSOFT,CISCO,DELL OR INTEL.WE NEED TO CREATE ENVIRONMENT AND ABOLISH REDTAPISM.GIVE FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES TO COMPANIES WHO CAN DO THIS. 2. GIVE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES TO COMPANIES DOING R & D AND SELLING PATENTED KNOWLEDGE.ENCOURAGE THIS SECTOR AS THIS IS NEXT WAVE THAT CAN BENEFIT INDIA ECONOMICALLY AS ALSO STOP BRAIN DRAIN.CONSTITUE BODIES OR CONVERT RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS INTO INDEPENDENT BODIES BY MAKING THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND HUGE INCENTIVE ON NEW INVENTIONS. 3.I THINK MY POINT NO.2 COVERS BIOTECH AND BIOINFORMATICS ALSO. 4.ANOTHER WAVE AND EXPORT POTENTIAL WILL COME FROM DESIGNING INDUSTRY WHERE AGAIN INNOVATIVE DESIGNING OF PRODUCT CAN SPURR DEAMND FOR THIS TYPE OF CREATIVE WORK WITH IMMENSE VALUE. 4.IN ADDITION TO ABOVE I THINK EXCISE AND CUSTOMS DUTIES RATIONALISTAION SHOULD BE DONE TO AVOID FOREIGN GOODS TAKING OVERDUE ADVANTAGE. 5. OX INTERST RATES CANT' BE RECTIFIED TO GLOBAL STANDARDS BUT CAN GOVT COME FORWARD TO ARRANGE SOFT LOANS I E BORROWING FORM OUTSIDE AGENCIES AND LENDING SAY AT 7-8 % FOR SECTYORS COMPETING FIERCE BATTLE WITH CHEAP IMPORTS. 6.WE CANT STOP CHINA FROM PRODUCING SUBSTANDARD AND CHEAP PRODUCTS BUT CAN WE REALLY SET A BENCHMARK OF SAFETY OF PRODUCTS COMING INTO COUNTRY.WE DEFINITELY SET STANDARDS FOR OTHER CONSUMER PRODUCTS. 7.MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL POLITICAL ANGLE OF TAXING AGRICULTURAL INCOME ABOVE SOME SLAB LIKE FOR OTHER CLASSES.HAVE COURAGE AND PLEASE COME OUT ON THIS AS THIS IS INTERNAL HAVALA MARKET THAT WE ARE CREATING IN OUR COUNTRY. 8.GIVE RELIEF OF TAX UPTO 1.25 LAC ON PERSONAL INCOME AS EXTRA MONEY SPURRS EXTRA SPENDING AND STIMULATES GROWTH AND YOU CAN COLLECT DIRECT TAXES FROM THEM.GOVT DOESNOT LOSE MUCH AND CREATES EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH FOR SO MANY. 9.SUBSIDIES PLEASE MAKE MY SPENDING ON LPG,DIESEL AND COMMODITIES HIGHER IN THE GREATER INTERST OF NATIONAL ECONOMY.EVERYBODY SHOULD PAY ACTUAL PRICE WITHOUT SUBSIDY.FARMERS SHOULD GET HIGHER PRICE OF PRODUCE IF THEY PAY FOR ELECTRICITY FULFILL THEIR LOANS,PAY HIGHER FOR FERTILISERS. PLEASE GET REALISTIC PRICE OF LIVING FROM EVERY ONE AND LET LABOUR RATES GO UP.WHOM WE ARE AFRAID OF. ABOVE IS FEW POINTS I COULD THINK OF IMMIDIATELY. THANKS AND ALL THE BEST AS STILL I FEEL YOU ARE ONE OF THE BETTER FINANCE MINISTERS WE HAVE HAD FOR SO MANY YEARS. RAJIV GAURI,CHANDIGARH

Wed Jan 31 16:15:31 2001
Name:swaroop
Email:swaroop@yahoo.com
Suggestions:sir, I hope that this time you will take bold steps in preparing the budget

Wed Jan 31 16:35:02 2001
Name:shikha srivastava
Email:shikhasrivastava@yahoo.com
Suggestions:honourable prime minister hello u must be tensed on the outcomes of quake we all indians r with u and would fight back together on such a massive devastation and the consequences that it would lead to our economy i would suggest u to increaSE THE TAX BASE BY TAXING ALL INDIAN EVEN THOSE WHO DO NOT FALL IN ANY OF THE TAX BRACKET BY A MERE2% OF THERE ANNUAL INCOME WE R READY FOR A TOUGH BUDGET TAKE CARE

Wed Jan 31 16:46:40 2001
Name:Ashish Bansal
Email:ashish.bansal@marconi.com
Suggestions:Please 1. Increase Purchasing power of Indian 2. Reise their confidence in govt and currency

Wed Jan 31 16:51:29 2001
Name:cintrella
Email:cintrella@rediff.com
Suggestions:Reduce the price of petrol. Increase the price of ciggarates,wine. Because it affects the youngsters. reduce the lotterie company,because it makes one lazy. i request u to kindly take my complaints.

Wed Jan 31 16:58:28 2001
Name:M V S SURYA RAO
Email:msuryarao@hotmail.com
Suggestions:dear Mr Sinha The easiest way to collect money for earthquake is charge Rs.500 from every permanent account number holder and Rs.10000 from every corporate account payee holder. This will be the best and most easiest way of collection without pinching anyone's purse. Also you can collect Rs.1000 from every assessee irrespective of the tax being nil or not. Both these measures would bring in easy money without pain. Also donations can be made exempt from tax plust quake relief bonds with 0% interest for 3 years can be issued to fund the quake relief. best of regards surya rao

Wed Jan 31 17:01:48 2001
Name:n.sivaramakrishnan
Email:purnashanthi@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:dear finance minister, there can be no two opinions as regards the need for a tough budget,as forewarned by our honourable P.M. however,it would be prudent to confine the additional burden on the common man,by way of indirect taxes only and, NOT by way of levying a surcharge on the incometax deducted at source fromthe middle class salariedindividuals.in- fact,the existing surcharge on incometax deserves to be dispenced with in your forthcoming budget.a surcharge on corporate tax,though may be considered. ideally,you must not fight shy of presenting even an apparently shocking deficit budget for 2001 - 02 as an one time exercise and i assure you, you will have no reasons to regret it. trust you do not choose to ignore a lawabiding,salaried,middle class citizen's request & suggestions! wishing you all the best for the financial year 2001 - 02! with warm regards - n.sivaramakrishnan B-43,Sudarshan, Sector-17, VASHI, NAVIMUMBAI-400703.

Wed Jan 31 17:02:42 2001
Name:n.sivaramakrishnan
Email:purnashanthi@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:dear finance minister, there can be no two opinions as regards the need for a tough budget,as forewarned by our honourable P.M. however,it would be prudent to confine the additional burden on the common man,by way of indirect taxes only and, NOT by way of levying a surcharge on the incometax deducted at source fromthe middle class salariedindividuals.in- fact,the existing surcharge on incometax deserves to be dispenced with in your forthcoming budget.a surcharge on corporate tax,though may be considered. ideally,you must not fight shy of presenting even an apparently shocking deficit budget for 2001 - 02 as an one time exercise and i assure you, you will have no reasons to regret it. trust you do not choose to ignore a lawabiding,salaried,middle class citizen's request & suggestions! wishing you all the best for the financial year 2001 - 02! with warm regards - n.sivaramakrishnan B-43,Sudarshan, Sector-17, VASHI, NAVIMUMBAI-400703.

Wed Jan 31 18:05:49 2001
Name:raju
Email:raju_dhebe@rediff.com
Suggestions:dsbgnm b.bss

Wed Jan 31 18:21:02 2001
Name:KANAK K THAKKER
Email:kanak@dkbrokers.com
Suggestions:WE ARE GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZED EXPORT HOUSE IN NAME JKT ENTERPRISES WE SUGGEST YOU PLEASE REMOVE THE TAX ON EXPORT PROFITS BECAUSE THIS IS KILLING OUR COMPETITVENESS & OUR ORDERS ARE BEING TAKEN BY CHINA & OTHER COUNTRIES. THANKS & BEST REGARDS KANAK K THAKKER

Wed Jan 31 18:47:04 2001
Name:Nikhil Vadia
Email:nikhilvadia@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Well i donot have a idea for budget but for gujarat quake. If all MPs contribute Rs. 1 crore each from their development fund and all MLAs Rs. 25 Lacs then it would be easy to raise at least 600 to 800 crore. Further, a slab wise voluntary system can be established for corporates where for turover above say Rs. 200 crore they will contribute at least 0.5% of their turnover and for say below 200 crores at least 1%. this will help to raise money for gujarat easily. I think its time for everybody to contribute their part to help Gujarat to comeback to normalcy soon.

Wed Jan 31 18:57:11 2001
Name:JAY MEHTA
Email:mehta_jayu@hotmail.com
Suggestions:please get the toughest budget u can the entire nation is willing share the burden in the dear state of GUJARAT please reply if u can

Wed Jan 31 19:04:37 2001
Name:Dr.Vasant D.Joshi.
Email:vdjoshi1@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1-Please cancel all the subsidies. 2-The scheme of Free Telephone to the telecom workers should be cancelled because on the same lines all other govt.employees can ask for Free Services from their dept. 3-The pension scheme should be limited till 15 or 20 yrs.after retirement. 4-Pension scheme for the M.P.sand M.L.A.s should be only for those who complete a minimum of 3 terms of the respective House. 5-Instead of Income Tax there should be Expenditure Tax. 6-increase in customs duty on Imported items. 7-Liquor,Cigarettes should be VERY HEAVILY Taxed. 8-Total BAN on the Production of GUTHKHA. 9-Severe curtailment of Administrative expenses. 10-May I expect an Answer!

Wed Jan 31 19:04:57 2001
Name:Dr.Vasant D.Joshi.
Email:vdjoshi1@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1-Please cancel all the subsidies. 2-The scheme of Free Telephone to the telecom workers should be cancelled because on the same lines all other govt.employees can ask for Free Services from their dept. 3-The pension scheme should be limited till 15 or 20 yrs.after retirement. 4-Pension scheme for the M.P.sand M.L.A.s should be only for those who complete a minimum of 3 terms of the respective House. 5-Instead of Income Tax there should be Expenditure Tax. 6-increase in customs duty on Imported items. 7-Liquor,Cigarettes should be VERY HEAVILY Taxed. 8-Total BAN on the Production of GUTHKHA. 9-Severe curtailment of Administrative expenses. 10-May I expect an Answer!

Wed Jan 31 19:29:46 2001
Name:ketki pankaj shah
Email:ketki64@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:learn something from america to develop our country because we are Indian &we proud for India

Wed Jan 31 20:13:14 2001
Name:S M Chakrapani
Email:smc_99_in@yahoo.co.uk
Suggestions:1. Raise the minimum ceiling on personal income tax to Rs. 65000/-. 2. Introduce Gujurat Earthquake Relief Surcharge of 0.5% on Corporate Incomes for all Corporates with an income above Rs. 100 crores and keep it applicable uptil 30th September 2001.

Wed Jan 31 20:43:21 2001
Name:Sanjay Gupta, London UK
Email:sgupta2@lineone.net
Suggestions:Please, Please don't borrow from world bank even for Gujarat rehabilitation. Why not let Disaster Management Authority issue tax free bonds in rupees. So that in future if times are bad and rupee depreciates, your financial burden would not worsen. Promote these bonds outside India so that people like us have an opportunity to help India. Also don't charge surcharge on income tax, rather spread the tax base, bring more people under direct taxation, even farmers. Else it will increase tax evasion and black money. We are with you India. We don't need world bank. Sanjay

Wed Jan 31 21:11:23 2001
Name:v.k.garg
Email:v.sahara@sify.com
Suggestions:please reduce the expenditureon top bereucats and minister to save for gujrat vicitims

Wed Jan 31 22:19:53 2001
Name:B K GUPTA
Email:ordnance@satyam.net.in
Suggestions:Import of crude oil causes maximum drain on forex and our economy. Our resources are limited. Will you please give some incentives to industris which will encourage them to save oil. say for the same tonnage of production, if there is saving of x% in oil consumption, then there will be rebate in income tax by o.1x%. I have given just a example which can be further refined by your team of experts taking into account factors like loss of revenue by providing IT concession, expected forex savings, impact on inflation by reducing oil imports etc.

Wed Jan 31 23:13:38 2001
Name:madhubabu
Email:madhubabua@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:sir, kindly enact a legislation which will prevent the proliferation of realestate companies in our country. i am from visakhapatnam and here there lot of companies which have collected hundreds of crores from people and since last decade not even 2% of people have been given registered documents and simply they vanish.the very big one's like janachaitanya housing,kiran krishna real estate & constructions,R.K.Township promoters, etc buy 2 acres and they draw plan for 100 acres and sell to people and collect crores and only agents and promoters are benefitted and after few years i.e by the time the timecomes for registration on completion of instalmensts they run away. atleast if you cannot give any respite in any other form do eliminate these fellows legally as has been done in case of nbfc's.

Wed Jan 31 23:49:24 2001
Name:padam kudesia
Email:pkudesia@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:on account of earth-quake at gujrat,some levy should be imposed to each & every citizen of india, however small it may be.Please note that by alevy of rs.1 yoy will get Rs100 crores.

Thu Feb 1 00:58:01 2001
Name:Srikanth Nalluri
Email:Nalluri_Srikanth@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear FMji I appricite the work you are doing till now. In the IT sector i think its time to give more focus to hardware sector. The future success in IT field can only come with a combination of software and hard ware. Otherwise India will remain an out sourcing place with cheap labour. Why can't Intel make Pentiums in India or Sony make they audio products in India. Also it is needed to expand the R&D in Biotech, pharma and Increase the agricultural output. And may be its time to tax the software guys. Thabk you sir Srikanth

Thu Feb 1 04:43:21 2001
Name:Kalyanakrishnan
Email:krishnan_v@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Respected Sir, I have already send you a post card suggesting to impose fines on violation of building rules( For your information i have sent that before the Gujarat Earthquake). I feel deeply sad for the consequence of the same. If there is no check on building rules then now then it can never be imposed. Thanks for giving me this opportunity.

Thu Feb 1 06:06:03 2001
Name:K.Sathiamoorthy
Email:sathiamoorthy@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sivakasi area manufactures almost 90% of the safety matches produced in the country. It gives employment to over 2 Lakh people. Due to the mechanisation and the low cost of mechanised matches, the safety matches industry suffers and hence the excise duty for safety matches manufactured with the aid of machinery should be at least 3 times of the hand made ones to save this industry. Otherwise, the industry will close rendering about 2 lakh workers jobless. Already a lot of firms are resorting to lay offs. In addition to that the threat of Chinese matches at half the price of indian matches are on the cards. Big companies like ITC and HLL are advertising that they will soon flood the market with Chinese matches which again has affected the market. Hence our humble request to the Finance Minister is to stop import of safety matches from China and to widen the difference in excise duty structure between hand made and machine made safety matches.

Thu Feb 1 08:08:53 2001
Name:K R SATISH
Email:krsatish81@hotmail.com
Suggestions:petroleum to get over in next 10 -20 yrs.huge investments on borrowed money is being made in this sector.how will you tackle this situation what alternative you have planned in this regard to the continious flactuations in oil prices and also their exhustion.how long should we depend on another country(gulf)is it till our economy collapsing.if we do not make some concrete plan to run our vehciles (transportation system)all efforts being put would be futile isn't it.as i write this mail i feel pained that every indian is sending approx 20.ps to gulf country every minute i.e our country is sending RS 20 crore approx every minute to gulf.if this kind of wealth drain should continue our debt will only go up and when scarecity of petroleum would come which is just few years from now our economy will be in shambles and what a legacy we would leave of our future generation . a highly polluted nation with lot of debt and a struggling economy as there has been no future vision to be self reliant. sir, i have a good solution in this regard.if given an oppurtunity i can suggest a method of having a non polluting and hi-tech transportation system where we need not depend on any other nation

Thu Feb 1 08:09:34 2001
Name:K R SATISH
Email:krsatish81@hotmail.com
Suggestions:petroleum to get over in next 10 -20 yrs.huge investments on borrowed money is being made in this sector.how will you tackle this situation what alternative you have planned in this regard to the continious flactuations in oil prices and also their exhustion.how long should we depend on another country(gulf)is it till our economy collapsing.if we do not make some concrete plan to run our vehciles (transportation system)all efforts being put would be futile isn't it.as i write this mail i feel pained that every indian is sending approx 20.ps to gulf country every minute i.e our country is sending RS 20 crore approx every minute to gulf.if this kind of wealth drain should continue our debt will only go up and when scarecity of petroleum would come which is just few years from now our economy will be in shambles and what a legacy we would leave of our future generation . a highly polluted nation with lot of debt and a struggling economy as there has been no future vision to be self reliant. sir, i have a good solution in this regard.if given an oppurtunity i can suggest a method of having a non polluting and hi-tech transportation system where we need not depend on any other nation

Thu Feb 1 08:32:38 2001
Name:Girish Patel.
Email:lkrishna@bom6.vsnl.net.in
Suggestions:... To Mr Yashwant Sinha The Honourable Finance Minister of India. MAIN APKO YAH KAHANA CHAHATA HUN KI YHA EARTHQUAKE VAJE JO BHI HAME NUKASAN HUA HAIN HAIN U KE LEYE UN SAB LOGO KI JO ISKE SHIKAR BANE HAIN UNKI SAHATA HONI CHAIHE, US LIYE JO BHI AP BUDGET ME NIRNAY LENGE HAME MANJUR HAIN GIRISH PATEL,DHULIA(M.S.)

Thu Feb 1 08:35:52 2001
Name:satish kesavan
Email:satishkesavan@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:please do not impose any tax on money remittance from foreign countries

Thu Feb 1 09:30:30 2001
Name:Nripendra
Email:nripendra_cc@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Free education for upgrading computer professionals already in service

Thu Feb 1 09:41:56 2001
Name:BALVINDER BHANWRA
Email:bhanwra@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:sir earler also i mailed you, i would like to add, yes do something for gujrat people, industries. thank you balwinder bhanwra 1/2/2k1 whole nation is with you sir

Thu Feb 1 09:50:58 2001
Name:Kapil Chandrayan
Email:k_chandrayan@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Sir, With the Gujrat quake tragedy,the budget will surely be infuenced.But can't we think of some system by which economic equality be esta. Sir, secondly I want to suggest that can't we esta.a fund ,the amount from which should be specifically used to pay back the country's loan. Sir, the whole country is backing you to help Gujrat. We are ready to bear any taxes.We also want to get rid of the forigen loan. The whole country is looking towards your gouvernmentwith great hopes. thanking you yours sincerely Kapil Chandrayan 60, Nehru Nagar, Khamla Road, NAGPUR-440015

Thu Feb 1 10:59:51 2001
Name:Vatsal Shah
Email:vatsals@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Increase should be made for the Salary class for Tax purpose from Rs.50000/- to 100000/- for Taxable income and accordigly Standard Deduction should be increased to Rs.30000/-

Thu Feb 1 11:50:22 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 11:50:38 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 11:50:40 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 11:50:51 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 11:51:00 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 11:51:01 2001
Name:Inderveer Rana
Email:Ivyrana@chequemail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please target the businessmen than the Employees , as it is getting too much to pay the IT.Please raise the Savings limit under 88B and also widen the taxslabs as most of the Govt Emp. are in the lowerlimit of the slabs.

Thu Feb 1 12:02:55 2001
Name:RASHESH K. PARIKH
Email:rkparikh_spu@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Purchaser of Bicycle should be given incentives. Environhmentally free. Saving Foreign Reserves also. Health improving.

Thu Feb 1 12:58:22 2001
Name:sudhir ghodgaonkar
Email:kalani@sancharnet.in
Suggestions:At the time of preparing the budget lower and middle class may be looked for as far as price hike is concerned

Thu Feb 1 13:38:32 2001
Name:AKHTAR ZAIDI
Email:akhtar_zaidi@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:sir,

Thu Feb 1 14:03:53 2001
Name:Frank Charles
Email:xfrankx37@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Looks like in your country only the people bear the burden of any disaster, natural or political, while your politicians sit on their fat butts and rake in the moolah, rather shamelessly. You have a Prime Minister who appears to be tongue tied most of the time and a Home Minister who likes to talk all the time, spiel and bullshit not worth listening.

Thu Feb 1 14:31:14 2001
Name:s.k.singhal
Email:singhalsk@iocrnd.stpn.soft.net
Suggestions:Respected Sh Sinha Ji, You are aware that these days imparting education to our kids is an expensive affair. We have to spent a lot of amount of our earnings for arranging education of our kids. We have to pay a huge sum to schools and colleges in terms of tution fee etc. We request you to kindly consider providing some relief in income tax on the amonut paid to Schools and colleges by parents of childern. with best regards s.k.singhal

Thu Feb 1 14:44:23 2001
Name:SRINIVASAN ANAND.G.
Email:apa1234@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:abolish income-tax.lease out all ayakar bhavans.send the incompetent staff members of income-tax deptt home.absorb the competent ones in cbi. increase petrol and diesel prices.this will force people to conserve fuel and energy which no amount ofdiscoursecan achieve.

Thu Feb 1 14:45:52 2001
Name:prasanna laxmi y
Email:prasnnasriram@yahoo.com
Suggestions:1. The surcharge on Income Tax shall be removed. 2.Restriction of savings (60/80 thousand) under section 88 shall be removed . 3. Baggage allowance for returning NRIs and international travellers shall be made Rs.25000. 4. All power plant related equipment shall be made duty free. 5. All hardware related to PCs shall be of zero import duty . 6.Tax benefits for house construction shall be increased. this will also help Gujarat quake victims. 7. Tax free bonds shall be offered for Gujarat redevelopment after the quake damage. Thank you.

Thu Feb 1 14:59:20 2001
Name:Sunil Khanna
Email:sunil239@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:It is true that every body is concerned about Gujarat Earthquake. Extra taxes on poor salaried class should be forced....but ALL MP's and Ministeres who are still defaulters in CRORES to DESU (DVB), MTNL, AIR INDIA, INDIAN AIRLINES MAY BE TO RAILWAYS AND TO PEOPLE(ORDINARY PUBLIC) AT LARGE, as it is only poor salaried class who are even taxed for default in payments by our own CHOSEN Ministers and MP. As we know from Arjun Singh (Congress) to our now cabinet ministers, they all have to pay hugely to the above corporations. WILL the FM will look after this before presenting the budget. Otherwise, we are sure this time we are not going to vote for BJP at least. Thank you very much Sunil Khanna

Thu Feb 1 15:08:45 2001
Name:sunil khanna
Email:sunil239@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:We all are very concerned about the tragedy in Gujarat. While PM & FM are thinking of again taxing POOR salaried class who are the only community which is paying TAX. Still there is OLD default in payment to DESU (DVB), MTNL, AIR INDIA, INDIAN AIRLINES and other so many corporations by our OWN CHOSEN MP's and Cabinet Ministers, formers Primes Ministers, ARJUN Singh(Congress) and present Govt.'s MP. Who is going to recover from these people, CAN WB can come here and see the corruption here. I will request the FM to FIRST RECOVER THESE OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS for which already the POOR salaried class is TAXED so many times. If it is not done, definately we will not vote for BJP next time at least. Regards, Sunil Khanna

Thu Feb 1 15:20:15 2001
Name:chandrakant kalyankar
Email:c_kalyankar@rediff.com
Suggestions:Sir, In the wake of the quake,tax you must, butfirst get your Baboolog to implement the 5th pay commission report in full..not in the favourable part,as done at present. Devise a Millennium scheme for using the Black Money for rebuilding the infrastructure.And make sure that no questions can be asked at anytime, from anybody. Guarantee total immunity to the Govt.Baboologs /Political Bosses first.Float Blck Bonds, with Interest at very low rates, or even zero % for Ten or fifteen years duration. Alternatively, you can seek VDS at 55 % TAX. No Questions and no paperwork.The remaining 45 %, can be brought into books of accounts on the date of payment. Or some such scheme. In the RAMRAJYA ideals of your party, could you forget how WALYA the Dacoit became WALMIKI, the Saint, who wrote Ramayan first, and made the God to live it later !. Instead of filling swiss bank coffers, the money will get used and the people with black money set free once for all. Forget and Forgive will do the trick.

Thu Feb 1 15:20:43 2001
Name:chandrakant kalyankar
Email:c_kalyankar@rediff.com
Suggestions:Sir, In the wake of the quake,tax you must, butfirst get your Baboolog to implement the 5th pay commission report in full..not in the favourable part,as done at present. Devise a Millennium scheme for using the Black Money for rebuilding the infrastructure.And make sure that no questions can be asked at anytime, from anybody. Guarantee total immunity to the Govt.Baboologs /Political Bosses first.Float Blck Bonds, with Interest at very low rates, or even zero % for Ten or fifteen years duration. Alternatively, you can seek VDS at 55 % TAX. No Questions and no paperwork.The remaining 45 %, can be brought into books of accounts on the date of payment. Or some such scheme. In the RAMRAJYA ideals of your party, could you forget how WALYA the Dacoit became WALMIKI, the Saint, who wrote Ramayan first, and made the God to live it later !. Instead of filling swiss bank coffers, the money will get used and the people with black money set free once for all. Forget and Forgive will do the trick.

Thu Feb 1 15:44:58 2001
Name:s.ramkumar
Email:mk@hotmail.com
Suggestions:instead of hiking railway fares why not withdraw passes/subsidies given to railway employees/retired employees who enjoy the benefits on behalf of tax dedcution from pvt sector employed persons.

Thu Feb 1 15:59:56 2001
Name:vibhu
Email:vibhu_singh@hotmail.com
Suggestions:no

Thu Feb 1 16:10:15 2001
Name:amit goel
Email:amitgoel@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Income Tax needs simplification. Flat rate slab wise with NO deductions whatsoever. That will be democratic also, for let people plan without wasting their energy at saving (dodging) tax.

Thu Feb 1 16:15:36 2001
Name:nishant gandhi
Email:nishant333@yahoo.com
Suggestions:please dont introduce the new taxes over the small scale industries

Thu Feb 1 16:22:31 2001
Name:Vaibhav Ravi
Email:askmenot@rediff.com
Suggestions:1.Reduce public expenditure. 2.Reduce security cover for ministers. 3.Reduce subsidies.

Thu Feb 1 17:03:41 2001
Name:Johny.T
Email:johny@igcar.ernet.in
Suggestions:In view of the Gujarath Earth quake, increasing of income tax surcharge is reasonable, but should be limited to the loss and it should be withdrawn as soon as the target amount is collected. It should not be a permanent affair like Kargil Surcharge, 10 % imposed after Kargil war.

Thu Feb 1 17:04:59 2001
Name:Johny.T
Email:johny@igcar.ernet.in
Suggestions:In view of the Gujarath Earth quake, increasing of income tax surcharge is reasonable, but it should be limited to the loss and it should be withdrawn as soon as the target amount is collected. It should not be a permanent affair like Kargil Surcharge, 10 % imposed after Kargil war.

Thu Feb 1 17:18:48 2001
Name:drkalyan
Email:dr_kalyan@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:no taxes on liquor,reservations for drunkards.bring down the prices of cigarrettes.

Thu Feb 1 17:27:00 2001
Name:SREEKANTH.P
Email:PULAKANTI@YAHOO.COM
Suggestions:Dear Sir, Kindly present a decent budget, please do not tax people like us who are dependant on salary alone and no other income. I remain Sreekanth.P

Thu Feb 1 17:30:49 2001
Name:bhanu johri
Email:bhanujohri@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please remove all these subsidies, specially to the rich farmers. I am a military employee and my brothers in arms have served the nation with their life.Their should be some tax releif for people serving in the armed forces.

Thu Feb 1 17:32:00 2001
Name:JAI
Email:jai_iv@hotmail.com
Suggestions:dear sir i would like to suggest that try to put tax on the expenses made by individual on luxury

Thu Feb 1 17:54:48 2001
Name:M.s. Jayaraman
Email:jayaraman1958@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Hob'ble Minister, I would appreciate if all the rehabilitation work at Gujarath be handed over to charitable organisation like Ramakrishna mutt or Satya Sai Sung because the benefit will reach the grass root level. I am not against Government doing the work. But some of the funds be siphoned to personal pockets of those who are involved. I take this opporutnity in conveying my sincere thanks for the excellent services rendered by you. regards, jayaraman

Thu Feb 1 18:05:39 2001
Name:bhaskar
Email:bhasku_001@chequemail.com
Suggestions:my request to honourable fm is that at the time of making budget don't overburden middleclass men because they are the most sufferers

Thu Feb 1 18:33:49 2001
Name:Nageswar YSV
Email:nageswar_y@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please bring more services under service tax. Make direct taxes slabs more realistic as follows:: 0-1lac(1% tax) 1lac to 2lacs(2% tax) , 2lacs to 3lacs(3% tax) , 3lacs and above (4% tax)

Thu Feb 1 18:40:36 2001
Name:M Srinivas
Email:srinim99@yahoo.com
Suggestions:It is ironical that you and our dear PM are thinking of extra tax because of Gujarat. Reading all the reports showing the incompetence of the bureacrats in saving lives, please cut their salary for letting so many people die. If you start Gujarat tax today, tomorrow congress will start another tax because the palace of thier chief has become old. You are paving way for anarchy. Please rethink for the longer economic benefit. For Gujarat, we are ready to pay more than what you could tax us. Please don't call it a tax.

Thu Feb 1 18:51:28 2001
Name:MAHENDRA
Email:NOSTRADAMAS@REDIFFMAIL.COM
Suggestions:WE HOPE TO LOOK FORWARD FOR A BETTER BUDGET THEN LASST YEARS

Thu Feb 1 18:53:25 2001
Name:SUNIL KULKARNI
Email:sunil_95@rediffmail.com
Suggestions: REDUCE THE TAX RATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL SO THAT EVERY ONE WILL BE MOTIVATED TO EARN MORE AND THUS CONTRIBUTE IN THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ULTIMATELY OUR NATIONAL INCOME

Thu Feb 1 19:45:08 2001
Name:Ajay Saxena
Email:ajaylucknow@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir Please ensure that the tax exemption limit is increased significantly, you may increase the tax rate though. thanx

Thu Feb 1 21:02:14 2001
Name:Harsh Pathak
Email:harsh_pathak@hotmail.com
Suggestions:some thing for the quality Education in the universities of M.P.,they ars in very poor stage.

Thu Feb 1 21:46:32 2001
Name:Satish Varma
Email:satish_varmapk@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, I suggest that thw whole state of Keral must be declared a duty-free zone. This will ensure that India gets all the business instead of Dubai and Singapore and will create thousands of jobs in Kerala. Kerala being remote, it will be possible to contorl transport of goods out of the state also. Regards, Satish.

Thu Feb 1 22:07:30 2001
Name:narayan s balaji
Email:chaluchacha@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:please consider the hardships faced by retired people who are not covered by pension . in these days with dwindling interest rates and high cost of inflation, this catagory needs some releif.please give extra standard deduction to us.

Thu Feb 1 22:20:46 2001
Name:RAJENDRA SONI
Email:RAJUJI@ONLYSMART.COM
Suggestions:please start taxing agriculture income above rs 60000 pa.

Thu Feb 1 23:26:06 2001
Name:Rama Krishnan
Email:rkmay18@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha, ... read the following link. http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/jan/13ajanta.htm Maybe, you could do something to stop the next company that is being forced to go this way. Regards. RK

Fri Feb 2 02:00:11 2001
Name:Rina
Email:rina5@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, I register my strong protest against the 2% surcharge levied on personal tax. This is putting the onus of annual calamities and the horrendous criminal nexus of builders ,politicians & civic authorities who are the culprits who should pay up for the destruction---not the middle class who are the victims living in sub standard DDA flats etc. We are living in risk & awareness of danger-----ON TOP OF THAT YOU ARE TAXING US?Ulta chor kotwal ko dante? Why don't ministers & politicians move to these sub standard residences in a show of solidarity with the Gujerat victims? Don't they have any responsibility/accountability? What sense or logic or justice is this that the already unenviable common man must pay for all calamities & wars because our govts.,our auihorities are inefficient, somnolent ,& awake only to their personal selfish interests? And then you all exhort us to bear the burden while your lives are not subjected to any restrictions!! It's as though we the middle class are obliged to pay for your lifestyles, MEDICAL EXPENSES, as well as all calamities. This is not governance,excuse me---this is CHEATING & EXPLOITATION. I once again appeal to your conscience and REQUEST YOU TO ROLL BACK THIS UNFAIR LEVY.thank you.

Fri Feb 2 09:11:26 2001
Name:Sagar Kulkarni
Email:sagarskulkarni@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hello, My suggestion is to the The Honourable Railway Minister of India,I hope you can forward this to her. The scheme for Senior Citizen wherein they get a concession in Ticket Fair should also be extended for season ticket holders also.People who work at the age of 65 & above should be considered. Thanks & regards, Sagar Kulkarni Mumbai

Fri Feb 2 09:27:48 2001
Name:srinivas
Email:srinim99@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr Sinha, Why is that only the salaried is hit again and again and again. Now you add 2% surcharge. Why can't you think of other taxes. For Instance, how much tax do you collect from all the doctors and lawers of the country? Why is that we fall victim at all times? You could even think of the following taxes. 1) A corruption tax of Rs 1 lakh on each of the politician in India 2)An incompetency tax of 10000 on each of the services officers in India. I am sure they will fetch more than 1000 Crores for you.

Fri Feb 2 10:04:45 2001
Name:joshua dsouza
Email:joshua@ecofriendlyspace.com
Suggestions:01/02/2002 Dear Finance Minister Ref : Alternate tax friendly measures After compliments It was a good gesture from the Centre, to repay all monies borrowed for our national disaster, what can also be appreciated is the support of so many concerned citizens of various age groups and corporates both big and small. This only drives a point that if the situation arises Indians are upto the task. It is going to be very unfair on all the people who have responded to a national disaster if they are gonna be taxed with additional burden. We talk about double taxation, no one complains, but every entity is being taxed N number of times already. It’s so unfair that every Rs. 100 earned Rs. 40 goes back to the Centre, who tax payers feel the monies are not being appropriated well. At ideasdatcome.com, our mission is To put to GOOD use, available resources, natural, intellectual & man-made for a user friendly environment We were working on a scheme (idea no 7) where we could generate around $12 billion in around a year to fund small projects, which we have got a good initial response. We were in the process of finalizing the concept and awaiting a good time to make a presentation to a commercial bank. We also have been working are ways and means where the additional burden can be recovered by more tax friendly solutions, where by the job is done and the pockets are not severed. Already implemented a project called ecofriendlyspace.com (idea no 5), where “we have made the environment everyone’s business”. We have first taken the initiative to reduce the use of plastic bags through user friendly schemes, where by the bags which can carry upto 7 kgs, made from recycled paper, they are available to the end user at just Re. 1 with benefits for not using a plastic bag totaling Rs. 50 each time, here the bags are made by NGO’s who also benefit from the project., the shop-owner for promotion this bags gets a 20 % margin, also and as part of our promotion we don’t use full page advertisements or hoarding instead we use the same amount in cleanliness drives, which again gives us the necessary publicity. Hence our caption “ making the environment everyone’s business” A lot of people have shown interest our Ecofriendly drive, from companies like Arthur Andersen to Zee Interactive Leaning Systems Ltd. We at ideasdatcome.com, were going to implement the idea (idea no 7) as part of our business plan, but now with the nation needing the money more, our conscience tells us we should support our less fortunate citizens. We would appreciate being given a chance to make a presentation to you in person, to show how the nation could take advantage of this scheme which would not cost the nation anything more than time spent and would also encourage savings at both micro and macro level. We would like to add that we would not take anything in return, except that we are given credit for the plan if executed. Awaiting an early reply For Ideasdatcome.com Joshua Dsouza CEO We are a Mumbai based SMALL company, now in Bangalore to set up ecofriendlyspace.com here Can be reached on 9845010025 or joshua@ecofriendlyspace.com

Fri Feb 2 10:05:44 2001
Name:joshua dsouza
Email:joshua@ecofriendlyspace.com
Suggestions:01/02/2002 Dear Finance Minister Ref : Alternate tax friendly measures After compliments It was a good gesture from the Centre, to repay all monies borrowed for our national disaster, what can also be appreciated is the support of so many concerned citizens of various age groups and corporates both big and small. This only drives a point that if the situation arises Indians are upto the task. It is going to be very unfair on all the people who have responded to a national disaster if they are gonna be taxed with additional burden. We talk about double taxation, no one complains, but every entity is being taxed N number of times already. It’s so unfair that every Rs. 100 earned Rs. 40 goes back to the Centre, who tax payers feel the monies are not being appropriated well. At ideasdatcome.com, our mission is To put to GOOD use, available resources, natural, intellectual & man-made for a user friendly environment We were working on a scheme (idea no 7) where we could generate around $12 billion in around a year to fund small projects, which we have got a good initial response. We were in the process of finalizing the concept and awaiting a good time to make a presentation to a commercial bank. We also have been working are ways and means where the additional burden can be recovered by more tax friendly solutions, where by the job is done and the pockets are not severed. Already implemented a project called ecofriendlyspace.com (idea no 5), where “we have made the environment everyone’s business”. We have first taken the initiative to reduce the use of plastic bags through user friendly schemes, where by the bags which can carry upto 7 kgs, made from recycled paper, they are available to the end user at just Re. 1 with benefits for not using a plastic bag totaling Rs. 50 each time, here the bags are made by NGO’s who also benefit from the project., the shop-owner for promotion this bags gets a 20 % margin, also and as part of our promotion we don’t use full page advertisements or hoarding instead we use the same amount in cleanliness drives, which again gives us the necessary publicity. Hence our caption “ making the environment everyone’s business” A lot of people have shown interest our Ecofriendly drive, from companies like Arthur Andersen to Zee Interactive Leaning Systems Ltd. We at ideasdatcome.com, were going to implement the idea (idea no 7) as part of our business plan, but now with the nation needing the money more, our conscience tells us we should support our less fortunate citizens. We would appreciate being given a chance to make a presentation to you in person, to show how the nation could take advantage of this scheme which would not cost the nation anything more than time spent and would also encourage savings at both micro and macro level. We would like to add that we would not take anything in return, except that we are given credit for the plan if executed. Awaiting an early reply For Ideasdatcome.com Joshua Dsouza CEO We are a Mumbai based SMALL company, now in Bangalore to set up ecofriendlyspace.com here Can be reached on 9845010025 or joshua@ecofriendlyspace.com

Fri Feb 2 10:10:53 2001
Name:shaik ajaas
Email:shaik_ajaas@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:chating on redif is not easy,make it easy.

Fri Feb 2 10:24:16 2001
Name:S.A.alagarsamy
Email:alagarsamy@vsnl.com
Suggestions:sir I am now worried about the growth of Tourism Industry in India ...we have already lost a lot during Gulf war and Surath plague.. war with Pakistan and now latest Gujarat Earth-quake Please devise a panel for permanent way to keep people safe during natures fury. I am a travel writer and I offer my services to the country ...Iam a voluntary retired Accounts officer of CGA NewDelhi-3 dept of Expenditure. I will work For the Govt as honorary service member...to promote Tourism Industry in India and abroad. Alagarsamy wwww.indutourismnews.com

Fri Feb 2 10:42:12 2001
Name:Prakash N Menon
Email:pnmenon@indiya.com
Suggestions:Sir, Your proposal to put a surcharge on IT for the Quake Relief is understandable. However if you put in a clause that anyone who has made a donation to the PM Relief Fund for the same Quake Relief, with a minimum value which may be say 5 times the actual surcharge applicable to that individual, would be exempted from the Surcharge, then you would get much more inflow into the PM Relief fund collections. After all it is the total collection that matters and not the name in which it is collected.

Fri Feb 2 10:52:34 2001
Name:K.K.KOHLI
Email:kaykube@nde.vsnl.net.in
Suggestions:I THINK THERE SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY NO TAX ON MEDICINES. ALSO THERE SHOULD BE TOTAL RESTRICTION ON SALES PROMOTION EXPENSES BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND THE BENEFIT SHOULD BE PASSED ON TO NEEDY SICKS WHO NEED THE MEDICINE OUT OF NECESSETIES NOT LUXURY. DO MAKE AT LEAST MEDIVINES CHEAPER IF NOT FREE. THE MONEY SPENT BY MANUFACTURING UNITS ON SALES PROMOTION TO VOO DOCTORS HAS DOUBLE THE DAMAGING EFFECT ON POOR SICK PATIENTS ,THAT IS, THE MEDICINE BECOMES EXPENSIVE AND IS RECOMMENDED BY DOCTORS JUST TO OBLIGE THE PROMOTERS EVEN IF NOT REQUIRED BY THE SICK

Fri Feb 2 10:54:35 2001
Name:Dynboo Ninsoo
Email:ninboo@messagez.com
Suggestions:Dear Sinhaji, Hope you are busy with the preparation for Budget 2001. I like to draw your kind attention regarding the Income Tax of individuals. The procedure involved in the calculation of Income Tax is Cumbersome. Do make it simpler so that even a normal man is able to calculate his tax with out the assistance of an auditor. The standard deduction may please be increased and increasing the tax rate for others who are above it may compensate the loss. Special tax may please be levied on IT professionals (working in India) and also who are working abroad. Professional tax may be levied on Doctors, Auditors and Politicians like you may also be levied. Passport fees may be increased for applicants who wish to get ECNR status thus leaving the ordinary/uneducated people. In olden days, Marriage tax was collected in villages. The same may be implemented now for marriages that are conducted in an extravaganza manner. To generate more revenues to the government, you can slash tax on farmers who do business other than agriculture and have a substantial amount of income because many show their income as an agricultural one to evade tax. Also, spare the farmers who do only agricultural related business like farming, cattle breeding, poultry etc. The most part of the revenue goes towards employee’s salary. Please reduce the retirement age of the servants by 55 and also relax the entry age too. This reduces the overhead on salary. Even though this cannot be done in a single stroke, it may be done in phased manner say, initially reduce it to 58 and then to 57 or 56 and finally to 55. The police are supposed to bring into book some specific number of cases in every month / year. Similar target may be set for the staffs in the IT department to bring into book the tax evaders. Also some good percentage of the money recovered from them shall be given as a tax-free incentive to them. These are few suggestions from my side. Please spend some thinking on this and implement the same if possible. Jai Hind. Indian Dynboo Ninsoo

Fri Feb 2 10:56:02 2001
Name:Geo P. Joy
Email:geojoy@mail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, It seems an abberation that in this country of a billion people, where around three quarters of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihood, that all agricultural income is tax exempt. The tiny fraction of the population which depends on salaries for their income is the only group which pays (or rather is made to pay) taxes. Till this anomaly is rectified, your efforts to run the country from personal taxes imposed on a fraction of the population will be brought to nought. It is true that Income Tax currently forms only a fraction of the revenue basket of the Government, but shouldn't the Government do domething to increase the share of personal taxes in this revenue basket when the highest tax bracket takes away more than one third of a salaried man's earnings to fill the Government's coffers? Yours truly Geo P. Joy

Fri Feb 2 11:10:28 2001
Name:r23r2
Email:fsdfdsf@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:ere

Fri Feb 2 11:27:07 2001
Name:O.G.Ravi Shankar
Email:ogravi@rediff.com
Suggestions:For the politicians to eat, we salaried guys are made made to pay through our nose. And now this 2% extra. Why don't you now withdraw exemption given to political parties, why should polictical parties be exempt from bearing the burden of gujju. disater.

Fri Feb 2 11:32:20 2001
Name:O.G.Ravi Shankar
Email:ogravi@rediff.com
Suggestions:Because salaried class are the most honost tax payers and beyond a certain point can't do any kind of tax planning - when any calamity comes it is the salried class which has to bear it ??? why is this ?? While lot of political/ filim personalities get away having huge dues we are troubled by tax authorities for 100 Rs and 1000Rs. If you want to make any serious reforms please change this annomoly. i am a chartered accountant by profession

Fri Feb 2 11:33:53 2001
Name:Milan.Sindhav
Email:msindhav@yahoo.com
Suggestions:dear sir i am a student of the rajkuar college rajkot.i would like to suggest u that there are still many rural areas where roads are assescible but the relief team has not reached there i would also like to remind u that there are many towns other than bhuj and bhachau where this relief thing has to reach urgently. thats all

Fri Feb 2 11:42:45 2001
Name:T.C.MAHALINGESH
Email:mahalingesh@usa.net
Suggestions:dear sir,please have a look at the problems of the farmers.they are indeed the main respiratory system of our country.don't make too much burden on them.impose more tax on corporates,IT industries,rich people. I would suggest different tax rates for those working in IT industries.plese earmark more money for education & health.

Fri Feb 2 12:04:16 2001
Name:Harsha KAlva
Email:hkalva@netzero.net
Suggestions: Taxes imposed for reconstruction of Gujarat is a good. Tax payers money is should be utilised properly and I think laws should be enacted to severly punished thouse who embezzle it. This is not a suggestion s to the FinanceMinister it is somethiing which all the tax payer of our country should work towards and try bring down curruption.

Fri Feb 2 12:12:37 2001
Name:gaurav
Email:gaurav_5678@ridiff.com
Suggestions:please concentrate on the vast middle class while making the budget_2001

Fri Feb 2 12:15:59 2001
Name:chidamber
Email:chidamber@pck-buderus.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha, congragulations for presenting the budget again! i have 1 suggestion to make: the Import duty has just gone up since you are in the hot seat! this is absolutely opposite to the trend started since liberalisation in 90's. always the end basic duty is increased by either SAD or by additinal duty for meeting the burden of oil imports. This trend has to be stopped! I wish you all success for the times to come! jai Hind! Chidamber PL

Fri Feb 2 12:37:18 2001
Name:Mahesh Gupta
Email:guptamahesh77@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir, We r ready for any tax burden, pls do needful for Gujrat Improvement. Thanks

Fri Feb 2 12:42:59 2001
Name:Bharat Adur
Email:bharatadur@rediff.com, bharatadur@hotmail.com
Suggestions:I missed to ask you the following as a Tax Payer, what are they entitled at the end of the career, Do you offer social security, pension or medical benefit.Now we strongly protest 2% increase in Income Tax.We the people of India, what have the governments done for the genuine tax payers in the country. Please liberalise total economy, and MAKE TAX LAWS SIMPLE AND PLEASE DONT INCREASE THE BURDEN.

Fri Feb 2 12:45:00 2001
Name:Bharat Adur
Email:bharatadur@rediff.com, bharatadur@hotmail.com
Suggestions:I missed to ask you the following as a Tax Payer, what are they entitled at the end of the career, Do you offer social security, pension or medical benefit.Now we strongly protest 2% increase in Income Tax.We the people of India, what have the governments done for the genuine tax payers in the country. Please liberalise total economy, and MAKE TAX LAWS SIMPLE AND PLEASE DONT INCREASE THE BURDEN.

Fri Feb 2 12:48:41 2001
Name:SRINIVASAN ANAND.G
Email:APA1234@REDFFMAIL.COM
Suggestions: Sir instead of earthquake surcharge of 2%,kindly downsize the govt.by reducing staff strength.why not reduce the size of cabinet to 20 ministers for the next 6-8 months?the impression gains ground that politicians won't sacrifice anything andonly ask commonmen to bear the burden.kindly don'T Increase service tax rates on chartered accountants from 5%TO 8%BECAUSE WE won't be able to pass onthe burden to clients.our clients never settle bills for nearly 6-8months.

Fri Feb 2 12:51:51 2001
Name:Shirish Kalamkar
Email:shirish_k@usa.net
Suggestions:Dear Mr. FM, Your Standard deduction limit for salaried tax payers is too low. Can any political leader / MP manage their expenditure within this limit you imposed on salaried. Instead of increasing tax burdon, you can save billions of rupees by reducing expenditure on Ministers / Officers etc.

Fri Feb 2 13:22:25 2001
Name:Ketan Vyas
Email:ketan_vyas@hotmail.com
Suggestions:I am paying income tax for nearly ten years.I am in salaried class.I want to suggest few points for salaried class. 1.Today I am in job and able to pay heavy tax,but in cases like me where job security in private industry is less,Suppose tomorrow I loose job or become disabled due any reasons,It will be very difficult to survive.In such situation I would suugest that if government can start Social Security Scheme so that in case of eventuality people like us can survive.(SIMILAR TO USA) 2.In case of salaried class considering the rate of inflation taxes should be rationalised.Beacuse a person even running a tea stall or bhelpuri stall earns more NET OFF TAX .Wheras salaried person cant hide his income.(Has to be Honest having no choice). 3.By giving more Incentives ,tax free investments should be encouraged . 4.As per income tax act EDUCATION ALLOWANCE :Rs.50/child PM is tax free But let me understand which is good schoolin metropolitan cities charge fees of Rs.50/month.This should be reviwed as most of good school charge fees in the range of 500-1000 Rs. Regards.

Fri Feb 2 13:57:19 2001
Name:Sharej Gupta
Email:sharej@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear sir, Plz. don't give more concessions to those working lady whose husband is already making money. Plz. give concessions to those family where only one person is earning for whole family. Plz. increase the IT slab from Rs.50,000/- to atleast Rs. 75,000/- if not Rs. 100,000/-. We are paying taxs for the benefit of our society not for the big belly bureucrates who does nothing for the society & thinking for their comforts only. Thanking you, Sharej

Fri Feb 2 14:13:01 2001
Name:Nirlesh Kothari
Email:nirlesh@hotmail.com
Suggestions:1. Please tax all kinds of income including Agricultural income above Rs.150,000/- 2. Please avoid increasing Income Tax even by means of surcharge. That is going against the basic philosophy. 3. I also request you to limit the expenditure incurred on governance(!), on political leaders and on officiladom. 4. I don't understand the Govt's divestment philosophy. why the Govt. should be in business at all? Request to speed up this process with a deadline for everything. 5. I must say that you are the most effective Finance Minister so far, please do not get bogged down by your political colleagues and their wasted interest. Thanks and regards

Fri Feb 2 14:14:35 2001
Name:Hemant Modak
Email:hemant_modak@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Why not have a nominal tax (say 2%-3%)on the income of farmers? They are a huge community and can contribute a lot in addition to satisfying the food needs of the country.

Fri Feb 2 14:35:25 2001
Name:mohan lal jangir
Email:mjangir26@yahoo.com
Suggestions:sir, In my opinion this time budget must be moderate. Stress sholud be given on reducing cost of operation all government organisation. The privatisation should be there but in restricted manner. Also steps should be taken to stop brain drain by other countries. Finaly, I hope that this time budget will the best for the country so far after independenc. Thank You

Fri Feb 2 14:40:42 2001
Name:shyju p
Email:shyju_k123@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:HAVE YOU DESIDE ANY ACTION AGAINST EARTH QUICK IN GUJRATH

Fri Feb 2 14:43:32 2001
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Fri Feb 2 14:45:30 2001
Name:kaustubh s. gandhalikar
Email:kaustubh_g@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:abolish dividend tax.abolish customduty on computers.

Fri Feb 2 15:32:55 2001
Name:Vikash Choudhary
Email:vchoudhary_2000@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Give us good hospitals, schools, drinking water, roads, sanitation !

Fri Feb 2 16:16:17 2001
Name:Sudarshana
Email:sudrs@lycos.com
Suggestions:Why only 2% impose 100% tax on people. The people are striving 18-19 hours a day to fill your pockets only. We dont need any money for survival. Dont you have an iota of sympathy for the people who strive and earn neglecting their families. Why is the govt for anyways if for every calamity you are going to put additional burden on people. Leave that place, the people can manage on their own. You all are acting as erstwhile landlords whose aim was to collect as much from the poor. People only join politics to fill their pockets not bothering what effect people have due to their non thinkable, erratic decisions. If it is necessary then atleast pull up the margins so that really rich people are the ones who are taxed and dont mind shelling out a few more thousands. May god help people like us who earn but dont have money left to spend due to people like you all. May god put some sense in your brains.

Fri Feb 2 16:17:00 2001
Name:Rajeev Vyas
Email:rahee28@yahoo.com
Suggestions:We call our nation as agricultural based nation.But paradoxically,Farmers are not liable to pay income Tax.Can't we bring atleast Big Farmers into Taxweb?Isn't it pitty that we could not have a single FM having guts to enforce the reality?!

Fri Feb 2 16:20:16 2001
Name:chandrashekar
Email:mysoreshekar@rediff.com
Suggestions: please try to give as much benifits to eco friendly industries.

Fri Feb 2 16:26:27 2001
Name:Sudha
Email:sudrs@justicemail.com
Suggestions:People everywhere else are trying to reduce the tax burden of people and here the govt is trying take away even a single penny a person possesses. Why is the govt for if they cannot take care of people without burdening the comman man. The tax collected everyyear if mobilized properly is enough to take care of any crisis. But how will that be done for people like you have to fill in your houses first and then think of the country if you get the time to do so. The main objective of taxes is only ways to fill in your own pockets and really not helping the needy. Why only 2% surcharge put a 100% surcharge on the income of people striving hard to make ends meet. They dont need money it is you who need them. We work for around 18-19 hours a day neglecting family and friends and our own birthdays and at the end of it you are left with a meagre amount not even enough to get u through the month. Dont you think it is a shame on the part of the govt to put pressure as such on comman man. If you hve to put tax increase the slab so that the really rich are taxed and not the middle class people who are really the ones who actually pay tax. If the salary people also did not have TDS then i am sure they would have done what business people and rich people do. The actual figures are something else but the shown figure for taxes is something else. God i wish i would have got cash without TDS then i wouldnt have paid a single pie to the govt. May god put in some sense in your brains.

Fri Feb 2 16:29:19 2001
Name:k k jain
Email:k_k_jain@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1. Spending on education need to be increased substantially. This is the only expense which helps build human capital, on which every thing else depends. 2. The house rent allowance received by an employee from the company is fully taxable. I feel the society charges payable by him need to be deductible for arriving at the net taxable part of HRA. thanks

Fri Feb 2 16:45:18 2001
Name:DV JAGGI
Email:DVJAGGI@HOTMAIL.COM
Suggestions:Already given one day salary and also clothes and money in children school. Ready to bear 2% surcharge on tax as a POOR salary class person. When Govt. is take some money, they take it from salary class, but benefits goes to only business class. Every body knows that more than 70% of businessmen never PAY any tax and the fact known to IT and PM. FM also. Also CABINET MINISTERS and formers PM and MP's are yet to pay to MTNL, Indian airlines, Air India, WHY PM, FM ARE NOT TAKING MONEY FROM THEM. IT IS REALY ... NO WORDS BECAUSE WE HAVE GIVEN THEM VOTE. THIS IS OUR MISTAKE. REGARDS.
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